Senior Software Engineer - Swift

Savage Interactive

Hobart on site Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 26, 2025 Last posted March 26, 2025

Job description

We’re looking for a senior Swift engineer to join our team in Hobart, Australia. You’ll join our product team and build and maintain next generation Procreate products and features. Your experience in Swift and technical architecture will amplify our team’s impact on the creative industry.

What you'll do

Work closely with designers to turn prototypes into shippable product
Deliver major features to millions of artists
Provide technical leadership through mentoring, library development and code review
Solve complex and unique technical problems

Required Skills

A deep understanding of Swift and its type system (Rust experience also counts)
Understanding of multi-threaded concurrency and parallelism approaches
Experience making technical decisions for a team and seeing them through
Experience debugging, profiling and resolving performance problems
A strong track record of developing libraries used by teams
Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Bonus Skills

Experience with diverse languages that have alternate paradigms to Swift, such as C, Haskell and rust
Experience with UIKit
Competence in linear algebra, being comfortable with matrices and vectors
Being well versed in testing approaches, such as property testing

What to expect in your first 12 months

Complete the Procreate onboarding process
Take ownership of your first initiatives
Provide support to our existing products
Build an understanding of our product development practices
Prepare and support the execution of core product features
Ship product

We want to hear from you

Our recruitment process is made to provide you with opportunities for you to show us what you're capable of, instead of assessing you solely on your CV.

We’d love to hear about how you see yourself contributing to Procreate in this role.

Please note, we do not operate remote or hybrid models. We're looking for full-time and on-site employees for our Hobart office.

About this role

Summary

Build and maintain Procreate products, providing technical leadership and solving complex problems.

Job title

Senior Software Engineer - Swift

Experience level

senior level

Industry

software

Location requirements

Located in Hobart, no remote work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

Skills & keywords

Required skills

swiftmulti-threaded concurrencytechnical decisionsdebuggingcommunication

Preferred skills

CHaskellrustUIKitlinear algebraproperty testing

Specializations

swifttechnical architectureproduct developmentperformancementoring

Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Hobart TAS, Australia

On-site City